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THE HAPPY GRUDGE

Posted by Pistol Pete

I don’t usually post on the weekend,but I have a few articles and I’m in a pretty good mood.I skim the headlines while looking for appropriate things to post here,and de-programming myself from politics has put things in a much better perspective.About the ‘fiscal cliff’ fiasco,the GOP knows Obamaligula won’t give an inch.He wants to tax everybody.It would be nice if just once they walked away and told him,you bought it,you own it.They shouldn’t worry about being blamed for the economic collapse because they get accused anyway.If they want my vote again,ever,they have to show me they’re serious about cutting spending and making it possible for companies to build their businesses without crushing regulations and onerous taxes.They shunted the Tea Party reps aside,preferring to be the minority party in perpetuity.Speaking only for me,I’ve had enough.I’m going to stop now.Won’t waste any more bandwidth on a bunch of weenies.

 

 

 

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THE HAPPY GRUDGE

Posted by Pistol Pete

Twenty five shopping days until Christmas.DW wants to put up our tree this weekend.I remember when I married her,her kids had never had a real tree.It was an annual thing when my children were young.We’d take the pickup,head to one of the many tree farms in the area and tramp through acres of trees to find just the right one.Then you take out the saw and kill a tree in honor of the season.We’d drag it out to the path where a tractor with a flatbed would come along and haul you and your tree back to the main building.While they tagged it and fed it through a machine to encase it in nylon netting we’d go into the little restaurant with the roaring fireplace and treat ourselves to some hot chocolate and a fresh donut.We’d sing carols all the way home and after much effort I would finally get the darn thing to stand up straight in the stand.It filled the whole room with a delightful smell and you almost ignored the constant watering and stepping on dried needles in your bare feet.We never left it up long after the holiday because these trees can ignite and be engulfed in a matter of seconds.We repeated this with SD and SS as long as they lived with us and SD still makes an event of it with her two daughters.SS is so tight with a dollar he makes Scrooge look like Santa,so they do the artificial tree thing,as we’ve done for years.This is one of the simple memories of family time that stay with you forever.

 

 

ADDED BY CTH FOR PETE’S SAKE:

For Pete

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TODAY’S FEEL-GOOD GRUDGE

Posted by Pistol Pete

Before a majority of our fellow citizens decided to commit national suicide,politics took up a large part of my day.After She died,I had a hard time finding anything worthwhile to talk about.Then I discovered that outside the shallowness of political Kabuki,there really are good things in life.I suspect it’s always been that way.If you want true peace you have to look for it.The search is definitely worthwhile.

  

I’D LIKE TO FIND ONE OF THESE FOR CHRISSY:

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THE FEEL-GOOD GRUDGE

Posted by Pistol Pete

A little late posting today.DW and I went to the local blood bank and donated today.She has a rare blood type and hers is sorely needed.She is O negative-negative.Hers is the blood they need specifically for high-risk newborns.She wasn’t aware of that,and was a little distressed because it’s been a while since she donated.I needed a lot of blood when I had my open heart surgery and this is just a way to give back.

HERE’S CHRISSY’S FAVORITE

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THE FEEL-GOOD GRUDGE

Posted by Pistol Pete

Note to anonymous:When you commented about me using the terms ‘Obastard’ and ‘death panels’  in my last post,I took it as an inference that I seemed hypocritical being it was a good-news grudge.Let me explain:When I called our beloved president Obastard,I was giving him the benefit of the doubt.As for death panels,now that he has been re-immaculated the reality of it has now reached the level of metaphysical certitude.One thing that separates us from left-wing blogs is that we don’t need excessive profanity to express ourselves.We don’t waste our time being angry or looking for enemies.I have posted over 500 times here and have used the ‘F’-bomb less times than a Kos Kid does in one sentence.Chrissy has done thousands and has never used a curse word.I don’t know how long you’ve been visiting our little garden,but the regulars can attest that when I get on an epic rant I end up speaking in tongues.

Most of us grew up in the fifties when adults didn’t use coarse language around children much past ‘hell’ or ‘damn.’ I sense you are younger than most of us and missed the chance at a happy,unfettered childhood.More’s the pity.I learned the really good words at school  from kids whose parents were more tolerant than mine were.I made the mistake of dropping the Queen Mother of cuss words within earshot of my granny one time.She promptly used her finger as a tongue depressor after she dipped it in pink dish soap.I swear it happened.I doubt I’m the only one who experienced a lesson in oral cleanliness.

It was such a traumatic event when our nation sounded its death knell on Nov. 6,I divorced myself from politics completely.The next four years will be pretty much a repeat of the last four,only to a more intense degree.The Democrats will get more outrageous and commit constitutional atrocities and the media will either ignore or twist to blame Republicans.The GOP will put up token resistance but will submit in the end,since they’re all playing the same game.

I don’t have a social life and I owe my friends here more than I can ever repay.I prayed on how to continue fellowship with my buddies without going into politics.When I really started looking I discovered there is much more to life beyond politics.I majored in English and minored in Theater Arts in school and some say I can be pretty funny when I want to be.These days we all need something to get us through this ordeal.I hope to make someone’s  day a little brighter whenever I can.

LOOK AGAIN,IT’S A TIE

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HOW ABOUT AN ALL GOOD-NEWS GRUDGE?

Posted by Pistol Pete

The political news is going to be pretty predictable for the next few years,but rather than whine about things we can’t do dick about,howzabout trying to share some funny/odd/downright bizarre stuff?

I could post a youtube of Obastard giving his Thanksgiving Day address while omitting any reference to God for the fourth straight year,but I won’t.May he burn in Hell.

DID YOU SEE THE STUPID COW WHO FLIPPED OFF THE MAKER AT ARLINGTON CEMETARY?AFTER SHE AND HER BUDDY POSTED THIS PIC ON FACEBOOK,THEY WERE BOTH SUMMARILY FIRED!!SEE YA!

 

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL

posted by Pistol Pete

This is the time of year to give thanks for what God has granted to us.I’m thankful to have another holiday to spend with my family and my friends here.I am also thankful to have lived during a period of time that was slower and simpler. Families ate dinner together and attended church together.When dad asked you how your day was,he really wanted to know.Before teachers became unionized,they taught for the love of working with kids and did not fear for their safety from children armed with knives and guns.When an unmarried girl became pregnant,it brought shame on her family,and she was taken out of school and sent away.Now there are government-run nurseries because of all the 14-15 year old mothers to attend classes.

The only limits to how far a person could prosper were the limits they put on themselves.When they were successful,it was something young people could aspire to,not resent because they had more than you did.Welfare was a last resort for those who had no other means of support.Honesty was an admirable trait and a man’s word was his bond. Good guys always won at the movies. Liars,thieves and cheats would always get their just deserts in the end.

It’s about even money whether I’ll be here to bear witness to the media ‘making history’ again by getting the first woman elected president.It is certain that any viable conservative candidate will be ‘Palinized’ viciously to ensure the GOP-e runs another moderate.They will content themselves being a permanent minority .They will talk tough but always,always submit in the end because though they may be morally right,the media will still blame them for everything.Rush knew we were in trouble on election night because exit polling showed half the electorate still blamed Bush for the bad economy 4 years on.Obastard will use this until the day he retires to Hawaii.

I have not posted lately because there is no reason I can see for optimism.Guess I’m an Eeyore.We all know how this works: one side gets away with whatever it chooses to do and we get the blame.This will not change.Unemployment will be 15%,gas will be $5.00+(except for just before the election)millions more will be out of work and on welfare or disability.Twenty million more illegal immigrants will stream across the border to partake of the country’s largesse and vote democrat.The Rats,as this year,will target a few swing states  to perpetrate enough fraud to swing the election.It worked before,no reason to think it won’t work again.Who’s going to stop them?

They cheated Allen West out of his seat and spent millions (and probably thousands of illegal votes) to defeat Mia Love.Can’t have any black republicans in Congress,now,can we?

I meant for this to be a thoughtful,heartfelt expression of gratitude for all we’ve shared together.Seems I went off on a disjointed diatribe.I’m sorry about that.Since Nov. 6,I have not watched Fox News,not even The Five.I don’t think I’ve missed all that much.

God bless you and yours on this day of giving thanks for what God has granted us.

 

 

 

 

 

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A GRUDGE

Posted by Pistol Pete

History tells us that after there was no more of the known world left to conquer,Alexander the Great wept.It is not beyond reason to think Obastard likewise felt something of a tinge (someone bereft of compassion has no capacity for sorrow or tears) when he came to the reality that he could no longer do the only thing in life he was ever any good at…campaigning. He will spend the next four years preening for an adoring mob and exacting revenge on the people of this country who are everything he is not: hard-working,honest,independent, spirit-filled families that endure what comes and attach no blame for their circumstance.They raise their children in the ideal that nothing of worth ever comes easy or without effort.

In all likelihood we will,indeed,careen over the “fiscal cliff” because that’s precisely what he wants.He doubled down on his demand for tax increases and now has $1.6 trillion as a target.He knows the republicans would be committing political suicide by surrendering to this magnitude of fiscal thievery and,of course,the resultant maelstrom will be blamed entirely on the GOP by his loyal bootlickers in the media. There will be multitudes of illegal,immoral, unconstitutional acts perpetrated by the left and the bastard’s overt duplicity will ,of course,be ignored or dismissed out of hand.

The regime knew of Gen. Petraeus’ trysts for some time and held it over his head like the sword of Damocles.He foolishly thought if he gave in to their extortion they would cover for him.He served his country with honor,but he doesn’t know shit about liberals.He is testifying today behind closed doors and will ‘revise’ his remarks about the Benghazi murders being a protest.I know there are several gold-digging bimbos involved,but I don’t care enough to get into the details.All I know  is that the administration allowed the affair to go on and jeopardize national security.

The Palestinian killers were elated that Brother Hussein will be around for the next few years so they can go forward with their plans to attack Israel with impunity.America will stand by and watch.Israel knows it too,and unlike what we’re stuck with,they have a leader who really does love his country and is willing to kill those who would destroy her.Would that we had a leader with an iota of the stuff Mr. Netanyahu is made of.Unfortunately we’re stuck with what we got.

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THE VETERAN’S DAY GRUDGE

Posted by Pistol Pete

I hadn’t really planned on posting anything,but I will not join the left in ignoring those who are serving and have served.I am constantly in awe at the courage and devotion these warriors show without thought to the risk they take and the sacrifices they and their loved ones make to protect the freedom we all too often take for granted.What galls me is they protect the back of a president who would stick a bayonet in theirs without pause or regret.For all the pain we will endure going forward,it pales to the reality of losing a limb,your eyesight , your very life or see a buddy blown to pieces, and suffer immeasurable pain for the rest of your life.Please join me in saying a special prayer today for those in uniform and those who lie under fields of white crosses from Arlington to Normandy to the Ardennes , Okinawa and Saigon.

Added by CtH: Mama Buzz sent a progress pic, which I can share because there aren’t any photos of Afghanistan and Iraq War Veteran Daddy Buzz up yet. I made the quilt and they purchased the quilt hanger from an all-veteran woodworking company.

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A HARBINGER OF THINGS TO COME

posted by Pistol Pete

First,a couple tidbits:

In dozens of precincts where GOP inspectors were removed obama got 100% of the vote.

States with voter ID laws that Obastard won:0.

You wonder why this all comes out conveniently after the election: thousands of  being laid off.

I went to list companies that announced layoffs–it is staggering.

http://www.wkyt.com/wymt/home/headlines/Teco-Coal-announces-layoffs-177980801.html

http://www.tylerstarnews.com/page/content.detail/id/508789/Momentive-Inc–plans-temporary-layoffs-for-150.html?nav=5008

http://citizensvoice.com/news/w-b-officials-to-announce-mandatory-layoffs-1.1400315

http://www.businessinsider.com/groupon-layoffs-2012-11

http://annistonstar.com/view/full_story/20755025/article-More-layoffs-announced-at-Anniston-weapons-incinerator?instance=1st_left

http://www.wtov9.com/news/news/murray-energy-confirms-layoffs-three-subsidiaries/nS2qF/

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/11/06/business/dairy-coop-closing-minnesota-plant/

http://www.kentucky.com/2012/11/07/2398967/brake-company-in-stanford-laying.html

http://www.rep-am.com/Business/681890.txt

http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/11/06/4393207/ati-plans-to-lay-off-172-workers.html

http://www.scpr.org/blogs/economy/2012/11/08/10998/spacex-claims-its-first-victims-rocketdyne-lays-10/

http://news.providencejournal.com/business/2012/11/providence-journal-lays-off-23-full-time-employees.html

http://www.farmers-exchange.net/detailPage.aspx?articleID=11871

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865566367/102-Utah-miners-laid-off-because-of-war-on-coal-company-says.html

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20121107/NEWS08/121109803/u-s-cellular-drops-chicago-cuts-640-local-jobs

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20121108/business/711089725/

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2012/11/vestas_to_cut_3000_more_jobs.html

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2012/11/firstenergy_third_quarter_earn.html

http://www.suntimes.com/business/16257904-420/career-education-cutting-900-jobs-closing-23-campuses.html

http://www.wsiltv.com/news/local/Mine-Owner-Blames-Obama-Administration-for-Layoffs–177987291.html

http://www.wfmj.com/story/20048093/canceled-program-costs-115-jobs-at-ohio-air-base

http://community.nasdaq.com/News/2012-11/amd-trims-austin-workforce-analyst-blog.aspx?storyid=188496

http://kaaltv.com/article/stories/S2828413.shtml?cat=10151

http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=426179

http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2012/11/08/te-connectivity-to-close-greensboro.html

http://www.kten.com/story/20049247/cigna-to-lay-off-1300

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20221108ameridose_to_lay_off_hundreds_of_workers/srvc=home&position=5

THERE IS NO DOUBT UNEMPLOYMENT IS HEADING TOWARD 11%.WHEN THESE VICTIMS’ BENEFITS RUN OUT,THE DEMOCRATS WILL GATHER THEIR BROKEN SPIRITS AND BODIES UNTO THEM TO SWELL THE DEPENDENCY CLASS.THIS IS NOT AN ACCIDENT.

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